"That's the last anybody saw him," said Sgt. Ted Nordgaarden, head of the Anchor Point Post, Alaska State Troopers.

Farrow wasn't reported missing until Tuesday, April 7, after the friend returned from his Caribou Lake cabin and talked with the neighbor. The two then realized Farrow hadn't made it to Caribou Lake and hadn't returned home.

Troopers started a search Tuesday afternoon with a trooper helicopter, Helo 1. That helicopter had to divert late Tuesday to rescue some hikers caught in deep snow near McHugh Peak in Chugach State Park near Anchorage.

A full search started Wednesday, with aerial searches done by Helo 1, a trooper airplane and the Civil Air Patrol. Volunteers with the Snomads, the local snowmachine club, also started searching Wednesday. Snowmachiners have been searching along the trail and knocking on doors or checking cabins in the Caribou Lake area, and were to start looking today along side trails and in creeks and ravines. Central Emergency Services also is helping with the search.

"We've taken care of the highway," Nordgaarden said of the well-traveled trail between East End Road and Caribou Lake. "Now we'll look at the side streets."

Nordgaarden said Farrow wore insulated blue-colored Carhartt overalls and a black-and-green helmet. He drove a red 1980 Yamaha Phazer snowmachine. Farrow is about 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs about 180 pounds. He has a full beard that's mostly gray. Farrow had a fanny pack with some emergency gear, including a fire-making kit, but no sleeping bags, no extra gas or food. He also did not have snowshoes, Nordgaarden said.

Farrow is well known in the East End Road area, and friends and neighbors know that he is missing and have been asked to be on the lookout for him, Nordgaarden said.

The Greer Road area did not get ash from the April 4 explosion of Mount Redoubt, but winds have stirred up ash from the March 26 event. Nordgaarden said breakup has started in the area, with creeks running and snow bridges over the creeks starting to open up. Visibility was good earlier this week, he said.

Anyone with any information about Farrow or his whereabouts is asked to call the Alaska State Troopers in Anchor Point at 235-8239.

Michael Armstrong can be reached at michael.armstrong@homernews.com.